Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Prove yourself Jewish: “The Chief Rabbinate was unconvinced by one of the documents and thought it raised the possibility that Mikhail was not Jewish”

JERUSALEM POST Rabbis making it harder for Israeli immigrants to prove they’re Jewish by Marcy Oster July 25, 2019 Mikhail (not his real name), who immigrated to Israel with his parents during a wave of migration from the countries of … Continue reading

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Execrable Daily Beast maligns baseball great Mariano Rivera on eve of his Hall of Fame induction. His unforgivable sins include support of Israel.

ELDER OF ZIYON Daily Beast, upset that Mariano Rivera is pro-Israel and Christian, implies he is a far-right racist July 21, 2019 This article in The Daily Beast by Robert Silverman is truly remarkable in how much it tries – … Continue reading

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He Persisted

FREE BEACON Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel’s longest-serving prime minister by Matthew Continetti July 19, 2019 On July 20, Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel’s longest-serving prime minister…Netanyahu has endured because the Israeli public entrusts him with its security. The left discredited itself. … Continue reading

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Newton, MA high school textbook teaches “several hundred Palestinian women have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Israeli occupation forces”

TABLET MAG Teaching High School Students to Demonize Israel by Liel Leibovitz July 18, 2019 Shortly after Rosh Hashanah of 2011, Shiri Pagliuso, a Jewish ninth grader at the Newton South High School, came home with an awkward question for … Continue reading

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“It wasn’t lost on anyone that Israeli Air Force pilots could use the F-35 to fly from Israel to Tehran and back without detection — and without having to refuel at U.S. air bases in Saudi Arabia or Iraq”

CNBC The F-35 has already freaked out Iran and changed everything in the Middle East by Jake Novak July 18, 2019 No conversation about the world’s massive political and economic changes since 2015 is complete without mentioning the F-35 Joint … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Warren campaign hires anti-Israel activist; Bernie Sanders tried that too.

FEDERALIST Hiring Pro-Hamas Aide Completes Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Israel Pivot by Erielle Davidson July 17, 2019 …Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon reported that Warren recently hired anti-Israel radical Max Berger, who helped to found the IfNotNow organization, a group … Continue reading

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The New Yorker “consistently singles out Israel for condemnation, while ignoring real violations of human rights”

GATESTONE J’accuse — The New Yorker Is Trying to Silence Me by Alan M. Dershowitz July 18, 2019 I recently learned, from a source close to The New Yorker magazine, that its editor, David Remnick, has commissioned a hit piece … Continue reading

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“Supporters of BDS, however, must reckon with some inconvenient facts and some rather important laws: The movement’s anti-Semitism often leads it to advocate violations of the law”

NATIONAL REVIEW The Anti-Semitic BDS Movement Advocates Illegal Discrimination by David French July 18, 2019 Yesterday, in a rather stunning feat of what looks like malicious trolling, Representative Ilhan Omar co-sponsored a resolution designed to support the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, … Continue reading

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“As a martyr, she is joined in heaven by thousands of Christian brothers, who died in the arena of barbarism”

JERUSALEM POST Jihadists rape, stone Christian woman to death in Syria by Benjamin Weinthal July 18, 2019 Islamic terrorists from the Jihadist organization Jabhat al-Nusra stoned to death an Armenian Christian woman living in the Syrian province of Idlib. Christian … Continue reading

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“Trump’s “go back” tweet was certainly offensive and stupid, since three of the Squad were born in the United States and all are U.S. citizens. However, he wasn’t attacking their color or ethnicity. Racism is picking on people for who they are; Trump attacked the Squad for what they do and say””

JNS In Trump vs. ‘the Squad,’ American Jews have picked the wrong target by Melanie Phillips July 18, 2019 …The anti-Jewish and anti-Israel prejudices repeatedly expressed by certain members of the Squad have disquieted many American Jews. Yet the Democratic … Continue reading

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